Former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell has falsely claimed that Robert “Robin” Westman, the transgender-identifying shooter who murdered two children during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, was a “Republican” and a “MAGA person.”
“What do you know?” O’Donnell said in a TikTok video.
“[The shooter] was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person.
“What do you know? White supremacist.”
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Check this out! According to that Trump Deranged psychopath Rosie O’Donnell, the Transgender shooter in Minnesota who wrote kill Trump on one of his magazines, was a MAGA supporter
Imagine being this mentally unstable pic.twitter.com/BfmUnKEjO2
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 29, 2025
While the gunman may have been a “white guy,” Westman was far from a “MAGA person” and was, in fact, quite the opposite.
Her statement is contradicted by Westman’s own writings and videos.
Hours before Wednesday’s massacre at Annunciation Catholic School, Westman posted clips to YouTube showing ammunition and multiple firearms.
Westman’s messages included one that read “Kill Donald Trump.”
Court records show Westman, who was born Robert, legally changed his name to Robin in 2019 because he “identified” as “a female” and wanted his name to “reflect that identification.”
In his manifesto, later translated by the